[oi-dev] Change in video driver ABI

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Jean-Pierre André <
jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Jean-Pierre André
>> <jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr <mailto:jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Jean-Pierre André
>>         <jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr
>>         <mailto:jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr>
>>         <mailto:jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr
>>         <mailto:jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr>>> wrote:
>>
>>              Jean-Pierre André wrote:
>>
>>
>>     [...]
>>
>>
>>              Update : I see the following comment for
>>         NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.135
>>              "Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 23 (xorg-server 1.19)"
>>
>>              Is that the new ABI used by Xorg on OpenIndiana ?
>>
>>
>>         One always needs to update to a driver version supported by the
>>         current
>>         Xorg.
>>         We updated to 1.18 (ABI == 20) and soon we will update to 1.19
>>         (ABI ==
>>         23), so you should install the driver you mention.
>>
>>
>>     Ok, thanks. In the Nvidia changelog, I see that
>>     NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.131 has support for ABI 20,
>>     so I am to try this one.
>>
>>
>> The support is backward compatible, so the latest will work as well.
>>
>>
> So I tried :
> - NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.131
> - NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.132
> - NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.135
>
> The first couple of them use ABI 20, and the last one
> uses ABI 23.
>
> They run successfully with the initial BE, and they all
> fail the same way with the updated BE. When switching to
> graphics mode, I get a black screen with a winking cursor
> on the top left. The keyboard and mouse are probably not
> working (but I can connect through ssh to find out what
> is going on).
>
> There are a lot of differences in the Xorg.log. Below are
> the main the differences for NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.135
> running on the working BE and on the updated BE (so the
> driver is the same, but Xorg is different).
>
> I have put all the differences on
> http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/Xorg.5jun.zip
>
> A lot of missing initializations, such as
>
> < [] Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
> < [] Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
> < [] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
> < [] Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
> < [] Initializing built-in extension XTEST
> (and 22 more similar lines)
>
> Missing report about module tsol (it was expected to fail,
> but the point here is the loading was not even tried).
>
> < [] Loading extension SolarisIA
> < [] (II) LoadModule: "xtsol"
> < [] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module xtsol
> < [] (II) UnloadModule: "xtsol"
> < [] (II) Unloading xtsol
> < [] (EE) Failed to load module "xtsol" (module does not exist, 0)
>
> EDID information not taken into account :
>
> < [] (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID for
> display
> < [] (**) NVIDIA(0):     device IQT L70S (CRT-0) (Using EDID frequencies
> has been
> < [] (**) NVIDIA(0):     enabled on all display devices.)
>
> This looks much like some package is missing.
>

Since the driver is binary, the only thing I can offer for now I to provide
a build of Xorg 1.19 that you could try out, ... but maybe it is just that
nvidia drivers are broken for your model.



>
> Jean-Pierre
>
>
>
>>     Jean-Pierre
>>
>>
>>         Kind regards
>>
>>         Aurélien
>>
>
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